“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
from “Song of Myself” By Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
My big brother quoted this to me one time when I was a kid, using large hand and arm gestures as he did so. Impressed, I looked into who Whitman was and have been trying to finish “Leaves of Grass” ever since.
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